twoleftears
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| Quad S-2 Popularity in the US seem to correlate pretty much directly to market penetration--which in recent years has been sorely lacking in Quad's case, with just the odd exception. Still, things may be picking up. The 3-store Tenacious Sound "chain" is p... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? Imagine a violin and a viola playing an identically pitched note at an identical volume. The more a speaker enables you immediately to notice the difference in how they sound, the more true-to-timbre it is.I'm not sure there's a word for the phen... | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers @skyscraperGifted Listener for Vandersteen, Magnepan, and my favorite there, Vienna Acoustics Liszt.Evolution Audio for Aerial.Command Performance for Dynaudio, Focal, Devore.But you must get yourself to Deja Vu, for Harbeth.The nearest store to D... | |
| Focal Sopra No 2 vs Magico A3 I'd like to put sciencecop and Alan Shaw in a room together for a couple of hours, and be around when they came out... | |
| Looking for ideas - new mono blocks for stereo music Right there in Canada, check out Audio Sensibility for all your cable needs, at real world prices. | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? In terms of naturalness of timbre, the AN's hit it out of the park for me. But then, they do need to be close to a front wall, and ideally close to a corner, for maximum bass reinforcement. Judging by the number of photos I see of conventional s... | |
| Morrow Audio re-design announcement: No more Ag coated Cu; Increased numbers of runs. How is this different from the frequent situation in audio where manufacturer X comes out with a v.2/mkII of their previous product, with a whole new wave of adverts extolling all the improvements they've made over the original? How do those who ... | |
| Help me replace ancient speakers - or not Yes, there are Audio Note kits. Worth checking out.Otherwise, Totem Forest might fit the bill. | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @prof Yes, I'm aware that I'm in a minority, though from alone. Devore's tend a little more to the "modern sound" that is shared by most recently designed speakers in the 5K and up range. I don't want to use the adjective bright, but they are do... | |
| $20k speakers that really impressed you All right, I'll bite. Harbeth 40.2, Spendor Classic 100, Vienna Acoustics Liszt. | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! @riaa... etc. Hey rhea, no trashing going on. More of an abstract musing on how designers conceive of what they're doing and what their goals are.Before some DACs had filters, there were those cubes that came with B&W, KEF, etc. That always... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? The tube renaissance coincided with the release of early digital. Boy, those early DDD recordings were real ear-bleeders. Ever heard massed violins on a DGG disc from that period? Ouch! Tube preamps and amps were the perfect remedy. It drove ... | |
| Send Inlets to be Cryoed inlet=receptacle=outlet=socket.Right? | |
| Stillpoints - snake oil? The Isoacoustics Orea Indigo costs ~$60 per footer.The Isoacoustics Iso-puck costs ~$110 for a set of 4.The Indigo is marketed to home audio; the Puck (at least according to their website) to the pro audio market.Am I missing something here, beyon... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @fsonicsmith Have you heard the Audio Note AN-E's, which just happen to be Devore's principal inspiration? To my ears the originals are still the best in that category that matters to you, truth of timbre. |